LDD3 examples updated

Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar chambilkethakur at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 05:02:59 EST 2011


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas <
martinez.javier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I see many people in the list asking where do I start? In my opinion
> the best way to learn kernel development is first learning some basic
> concepts and start coding to get your hands dirty.
>
> The Linux Device Drivers 3 book is a good start. Both the book and
> source code examples are freely available.
>
> The problem is that the book is a few years old and the example
> drivers do not compile in recent kernels.
>
> I started a project to keep the LDD3 examples up-to-date with recent
> kernels.
>
> The git tree can be cloned from git://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3.git
>
> I will try to keep the code always in sync with linux-next but there
> will be tags to stable versions. Now there are tags that compile with
> kernel versions 2.6.32, 2.6.35 and 2.6.37.
>
> I didn't try all the drivers with the three kernel versions, just
> compile tested. So any bug, comment or patch is always welcome
>
Thanks Javier,
This was much needed.

Regards
anuz
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